MoMA installation (1986-1998)
Wolfgang Tillmans
German, born 1968
2012
A wall installation of 29 chromogenic prints and one inkjet print by Wolfgang Tillmans that assembles intimate portraits, snapshots, and fragments into a single, deliberately informal picture of everyday life and memory.
At first your eye is caught by a large paired portrait, then travels across a scatter of smaller photographs—varied scales and subjects hung like loose thoughts that create a conversational, improvisatory rhythm on the white wall.
The piece exemplifies Tillmans’s influential, anti-hierarchical approach to photographic display, treating images as diaristic fragments that blur documentary and personal modes and helped reshape contemporary photography and museum installation.
Medium
29 chromogenic prints, 1 inkjet print
Dimensions
Installation: 148 × 483" (375.9 × 1226.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
The Family of Man Fund, Carol and David Appel Family Fund, and Committee on Photography Fund
Accession
1254.2012.1-30
Palette
Art Terms
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